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| John Couch Adams |
Astronomer |
5-Jun-1819 |
21-Jan-1892 |
Discovered planet Neptune |
| Walter S. Adams |
Astronomer |
20-Dec-1876 |
11-May-1956 |
Long-time director of Mt. Wilson Observatory |
| George Biddell Airy |
Astronomer |
27-Jul-1801 |
2-Jan-1892 |
British Astronomer Royal |
| Walter Baade |
Astronomer |
24-Mar-1893 |
25-Jun-1960 |
German-American observational astronomer |
| Charles Babbage |
Mathematician |
26-Dec-1791 |
18-Oct-1871 |
Inventor of the Difference Engine |
| Harold D. Babcock |
Astronomer |
24-Jan-1882 |
8-Apr-1968 |
Solar radiation |
| Alexander Dallas Bache |
Physicist |
19-Jul-1806 |
17-Feb-1867 |
First President, National Academy of Sciences |
| Francis Baily |
Astronomer |
28-Apr-1774 |
30-Aug-1844 |
First to observe Baily's Beads |
| Alec Boksenberg |
Astronomer |
18-Mar-1936 |
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Image Photon Counting System |
| John G. Bolton |
Astronomer |
5-Jun-1922 |
6-Jul-1993 |
First Director of Parkes Observatory |
| Steve Bourne |
Computer Programmer |
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| Dirk Brouwer |
Astronomer |
1-Sep-1902 |
31-Jan-1966 |
Celestial mechanics |
| Ernest W. Brown |
Astronomer |
29-Nov-1866 |
22-Jul-1938 |
Tables of the Motion of the Moon |
| Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Astronomer |
15-Jul-1943 |
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Co-Discoverer of pulsars |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
Astronomer |
19-Oct-1910 |
21-Aug-1995 |
Evolutionary stages of stars |
| Sydney Chapman |
Mathematician |
29-Jan-1888 |
16-Jun-1970 |
Geomagnetism |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
Novelist |
16-Dec-1917 |
19-Mar-2008 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Thomas George Cowling |
Mathematician |
17-Jun-1906 |
16-Jun-1990 |
Cowling model |
| George Darwin |
Astronomer |
9-Jul-1845 |
7-Dec-1912 |
Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system |
| Augustus De Morgan |
Mathematician |
27-Jun-1806 |
18-Mar-1871 |
De Morgan's Laws |
| Henri Alexandre Deslandres |
Astronomer |
24-Jul-1853 |
15-Jan-1948 |
Spectroheliograph |
| Frank W. Dyson |
Astronomer |
8-Jan-1868 |
25-May-1939 |
Six pips on the BBC |
| Arthur Eddington |
Astronomer |
28-Dec-1882 |
22-Nov-1944 |
Eddington luminosity |
| George Everest |
Explorer |
4-Jul-1790 |
1-Dec-1866 |
Namesake of Mt. Everest |
| Alfred Fowler |
Astronomer |
22-Mar-1868 |
24-Jun-1940 |
Celestial spectroscopy |
| William A. Fowler |
Astronomer |
9-Aug-1911 |
14-Mar-1995 |
Element generation within stars |
| Riccardo Giacconi |
Astronomer |
6-Oct-1931 |
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Discovered cosmic X-ray sources |
| Robert R. Gilruth |
Engineer |
18-Oct-1913 |
17-Aug-2000 |
NASA scientist |
| Jesse L. Greenstein |
Astronomer |
15-Oct-1909 |
21-Oct-2002 |
Co-Discoverer of quasars |
| Stephen Groombridge |
Astronomer |
7-Jan-1755 |
30-Mar-1832 |
A Catalogue of Circumpolar Stars |
| Otto Heckmann |
Astronomer |
23-Jun-1901 |
13-May-1983 |
Investigated cosmic expansion |
| Louis Henyey |
Astronomer |
3-Feb-1910 |
18-Feb-1970 |
Henyey method |
| John Herschel |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1792 |
11-May-1871 |
Discovered many moons of Saturn |
| Ejnar Hertzsprung |
Astronomer |
8-Oct-1873 |
21-Oct-1967 |
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram |
| Raymond Hide |
Physicist |
17-May-1929 |
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Earth's rotation |
| George W. Hill |
Astronomer |
3-Mar-1838 |
16-Apr-1914 |
A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn |
| Fred Hoyle |
Astronomer |
24-Jun-1915 |
20-Aug-2001 |
Opposed the Big Bang but named it |
| Edwin Hubble |
Astronomer |
20-Nov-1889 |
28-Sep-1953 |
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's Law |
| George Isaak |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1933 |
5-Jun-2005 |
Resonant scattering spectroscopy |
| James H. Jeans |
Astronomer |
11-Sep-1877 |
16-Sep-1946 |
Continuous creation theory |
| James E. Keeler |
Astronomer |
10-Sep-1857 |
12-Aug-1900 |
Composition of Saturn's rings |
| Armin O. Leuschner |
Astronomer |
16-Jan-1868 |
22-Apr-1953 |
Astronomer at Berkeley |
| Bertil Lindblad |
Astronomer |
26-Nov-1895 |
25-Jun-1965 |
Spiral structure of the galaxy |
| Alfred Lee Loomis |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1887 |
1-Aug-1975 |
Millionaire scientist |
| Bernard Lovell |
Astronomer |
31-Aug-1913 |
6-Aug-2012 |
Radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank |
| Donald Lynden-Bell |
Astronomer |
5-Apr-1935 |
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Astrophysicist at Cambridge |
| Paul W. Merrill |
Astronomer |
15-Aug-1887 |
19-Jul-1961 |
S-process of nucleosynthesis |
| Albert A. Michelson |
Physicist |
19-Dec-1852 |
9-May-1931 |
Measured the speed of light |
| E. Arthur Milne |
Mathematician |
14-Feb-1896 |
21-Sep-1950 |
Kinematic relativity |
| Rudolph Minkowski |
Astronomer |
28-May-1895 |
4-Jan-1976 |
Galaxies in collision |
| Marcel Minnaert |
Astronomer |
12-Feb-1893 |
26-Oct-1970 |
Solar spectrophotometry |
| Charlotte E. Moore |
Astronomer |
24-Sep-1898 |
3-Mar-1990 |
Technetium in the Sun |
| Gerry Neugebauer |
Astronomer |
3-Sep-1932 |
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Infrared astronomy |
| Simon Newcomb |
Astronomer |
12-Mar-1835 |
11-Jul-1909 |
Nautical Almanac |
| Ernst J. Öpik |
Astronomer |
23-Oct-1893 |
10-Sep-1985 |
Andromeda Nebula |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin |
Astronomer |
10-May-1900 |
7-Dec-1979 |
Hydrogen in the Sun |
| Benjamin Peirce |
Mathematician |
4-Apr-1809 |
10-Jun-1880 |
Idempotent and nilpotent |
| Jerry Pournelle |
Author |
7-Aug-1933 |
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Sci-Fi collaborator with Larry Niven |
| Henry Norris Russell |
Astronomer |
25-Oct-1877 |
18-Feb-1957 |
Giant stars and dwarfs |
| Wallace Sargent |
Astronomer |
15-Feb-1935 |
29-Oct-2012 |
Astrophysicist at CalTech |
| Karl Schwarzschild |
Astronomer |
9-Oct-1873 |
11-May-1916 |
Black holes, Schwarzschild radius |
| Frederick Hanley Seares |
Astronomer |
17-May-1873 |
20-Jul-1964 |
Astronomer at Mt. Wilson Observatory |
| Michael Seaton |
Astronomer |
16-Jun-1923 |
29-May-2007 |
Opacity Project |
| Iosif S. Shklovskii |
Astronomer |
1-Jul-1916 |
3-Mar-1985 |
Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula |
| Harold Spencer Jones |
Astronomer |
29-Mar-1890 |
3-Nov-1960 |
10th Royal Astronomer of England |
| Lyman Spitzer, Jr. |
Astronomer |
26-Jun-1914 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Father of space telescopes |
| Ambrose Swasey |
Business |
19-Dec-1846 |
15-Jun-1937 |
Warner and Swasey Company and Observatory |
| Edward Troughton |
Inventor |
Oct-1753 |
12-Jun-1835 |
Early scientific instruments |
| Herbert Hall Turner |
Astronomer |
13-Aug-1861 |
20-Aug-1930 |
Stellar positions |
| Harold C. Urey |
Chemist |
29-Apr-1893 |
5-Jan-1981 |
Discovered Deuterium |
